Escape – Ebb Then Flood

“Going Bush”

October 14, 2020October 13, 2020 by Ebb Then Flood

“Going Bush”

There is an expression saying in New Zealand ,”going bush”, which is used where someone is, or intends to, escape the rat race for awhile.

It could literally mean disappearing into dense bush like that in the photo but it could be escaping anywhere really, just to get away from it all for a time.

I feel the need to “go bush” myself after the strange and awful year the world has had to endure – just a bit jaded. Should start planning to do just that, but then again,”going bush” is not something that lends itself to a great degree of deliberation.

When you feel the need to go, just go!

On The Beach

March 11, 2020 by Ebb Then Flood

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‘On The Beach’

“Now I’m livin’

out here on the beach,

but those seagulls are

still out of reach

… I follow the road,

though I don’t know

where it ends.

Get out of town, get out of town,

think I’ll get out of town.”

‘On The Beach’, Neil Young (1974)

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Why Do You Stay?

March 4, 2019 by Ebb Then Flood

“Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?”

– Rumi

Last night I was watching a rerun of the movie ‘The Terminal’, starring Tom Hanks. His character is from a fictional republic in the former Soviet Union and he lands at New York ,but because of a revolution at home he is rendered stateless and thus unable to leave the airport terminal .He has a personal mission he must achieve in NY ,but when he is “gifted” a small envelope of time by the immigration authorities to walk out to America ,while they turn a blind eye , he hesitates at the doors ,and cannot exit, held back by fears.

The scene Rumi’s words above . All of us have at some time been held captive by fear and doubt, often of our own making. When the chance to escape comes, are we courageous enough to do so, or will we languish in our all too familiar cell?